Comet 81P/Wild

Globular Cluster M79 using iPhone to connect to Siding Spring telescope

M42 from Siding Spring this morning.

Latest Catalina Image from Friday

Comet C\2013 X1 Panstarrs at 3:27 a.m. this morning.

Negative Image remotely from New Mexico using 6 inch refractor

Measured Position R.A. 23h 52m 46s  Declination: +17° 21' 58"

Colour version

Orion's Belt and Nebula tonight

A 3 minute exposure using Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount with Canon 40D and 38mm lens setting. 

Ursa Major rising in the east

Taken earlier tonight  - 30 second exposure - Canon 40D with Light Pollution Filter 38mm lens. Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount.

NGC 2818 with a larger telescope

I took another image of NGC 2818 in monochrome with a larger telescope

The above image is a rotated enlargement from the full image below

NGC 2818

I used the 90mm refractor at Siding Spring to take an image of NGC 2818. These are the settings just  prior to the image being taken. Although I took this on the 9th Jan 2016 the settings show the 10th Jan because Australia has moved into the next day.

This is the resulting image

This is the un-annotated image

NGC 2359 - Nebula in Canis Major

A 10 minute exposure taken remotely from New South Wales. NGC 2359 is the main nebula and NGC 2361 is a "knot" in the larger nebula.

More details in the image below

This is the un-annotated image